World meat industry news

Russia meat producer Miratorg has increased its production of high-quality beef by 32% to 108 thousand tons in live weight in 2018 compared to the previous year.

The company operated 94 farms in Bryansk, Kaluga, Oryol, Smolensk, Tula and Kaliningrad regions with a total herd of over 600 thousand animals, two feedlots and a high-tech slaughtering and processing plant with the capacity of 150 thousand tons of products per year.

“We see that HoReCa and retail chains need the high-quality beef more than ever. Thus, we focused on the further increase in production, expansion of the product range while keeping quality standards uncompromised. According to the business plan we see Aberdeen-Angus herd to reach 1 million heads in the next few years.”, Miratorg’s press service says.